US family 'stages mock abduction of boy, six, for being too nice'
The family of a six-year-old US boy staged his mock kidnapping because they thought he was too nice to strangers, Missouri police say.
The boy's aunt, Denise Kroutil, allegedly asked a colleague, Nathan Firoved, to help "scare" her nephew.
The boy was lured into a car, taken to a basement and told he could be sold into "sex slavery", police said.
Ms Kroutil, Mr Firoved and the boy's mother and grandmother, who allegedly also took part, were arrested.
"Family members told investigators their primary intent was to educate the victim and felt they did nothing wrong," a statement from the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office said.
Police said Mr Firoved lured the six-year-old into his vehicle after he left a school bus in Troy, Missouri.
The man told the boy he would never "see his mommy again" and would be "nailed to the wall of a shed".
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